Leonardo DiCaprio Might Star in Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Biopic

A week after hearing that David Fincher had been ousted from Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic, after allegedly making “aggressive demands” to the studio about his paycheck and star, The Hollywood Reporterscoops that Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) is in talks to replace Fincher, and has already approached Leonardo DiCaprio about starring as Jobs in the feature.

Boyle and DiCaprio previously collaborated on the 2000 dud The Beach, but have since gone on to separately garner more critical acclaim—for DiCaprio, with his recent role as the real-life Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street, and for Boyle, for his Oscar-nominated drama 127 Hours and his Academy Award win for Slumdog Millionaire.

Just last week, DiCaprio signed onto a violent new project with director Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant, that our Joanna Robinson speculated could be his Oscar-winning role.